What is recorded here
North Galway holds a shallow rectangular depression, nineteen metres long and eight wide, aligned north-south inside an older enclosure. At its heart sits a small circular mound, four metres across and only thirty centimetres high, with a hollow centre that suggests a buried well, foundation or forgotten chamber. The place may have served as a church, a burial ground or a meeting spot before the land took it back. What is certain is that the earth still marks the shape of what stood there.
Within an enclosure (GA086-178002-). Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1948) as the 'Site of' a 'Church'. All that is visible is a shallow rectangular depression (L 19m, Wth 8m), aligned N-S. Within it is a small circular mound (D c. 4m, H 0.3m), the centre of which is hollow.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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